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So my weigh in this week was decent. I stayed the same, which is my goal now, but it was a miracle for sure.

You see, I have been struggling, and I mean struggling hard core this week. With the holidays comes holiday baking, which is one of my favorite things to do in the world. I have been at it for a couple of weeks now and was actually doing pretty decent. You have to do quality control and try at least one from a batch to make sure you didn’t like put salt in instead of sugar.

I tracked it all. Then I started a slippery slope this week known as “Oh I’ll track that in a little bit” and ended up with “Well I’ve fell right through the outhouse floor so I might as well enjoy myself”.

I know better, but it happened anyway.

It’s probably going to happen again.

And again.

No matter how bullet-proof we may feel life is a constant struggle. It’s how we react to those struggles that define who we are and how successful we will be. The slide was subtle and I didn’t even notice it was happening until I was at the bottom sitting in a pile of sugar cookie dough and chocolate chips.

Well now they’ve gone and done it. 30 Smartpoints is no more, making my blog name out of date.

Bastards.

It’s okay though. 30 Smartpoints got me to where I am, so I’ll wear my old-fashioned name like a badge of honor!

Weigh in was good as I was down .4. I’ve slowly been creeping to 65 pounds lost, which isn’t my goal but the body wants what the body wants. I’m currently 5 pounds under said goal, so Imma keep doin’ what I’m doin’ and see how it all shakes out.

So I weighed in the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and I lost .4 pounds.

What?

Yep. I lost weight. I wasn’t even trying to lose weight. Please don’t come looking for me so that you can kick my ass or anything.

I’m sure most of it was because I cooked the dinner. Like the whole dinner for 20 some odd people. I remember Thanksgivings past, when my Mom would cook dinner and sit there at the table and not really eat. She always used to say that after cooking day and night she didn’t feel like eating it.

I now know what she means. I didn’t feel like eating any of it either. Watching friends and family enjoy my efforts was more than enough for me, and while I nibbled here or there I really didn’t overindulge at all.

Even if I would have I would have accepted it. It’s just one day. The really important thing is what you do the day after. Do you get back on the wagon, or do you say “Screw it, I blew it so I might as well eat my way through a river of mashed potatoes and gravy with a side of pumpkin pie”.

Even if you did a backstroke through mashed potatoes it’s not to late. That’s the beautiful thing. Even if you had a calorie laden breakfast this morning it’s not to late.

You can restart RIGHT NOW. Not tomorrow, not at dinner, but right now.

So I’m still here peeps! I’ve been meaning to write this since weigh in last week but I’ve been busy.

I also lost another half a pound at weigh in, but I’m chalking that up to the normal fluctuations in weight that everybody has. I think I’m finally leveling off. There has also been another new development:

I’M ON VACATION

Now for those of you who don’t know me personally I work more than most. Like I probably put in the hours two average people work each week, so when I do finally have some time off I have a lot of things to get done.

Like getting rid of all those clothes that don’t fit me anymore.

I mean even those “skinny” clothes from back in the day are way to big now.

My first week was slotted for doing all those pesky tasks that need completed, and the second week I’m headed to my annual Halloween trek to Vegas. I worked really hard this week and need a vacation from my vacation!

I’ve made the decision to not stress to much about going over my Smartpoints and the possibility of gaining weight.

Wait, what?

Oh I plan on tracking it all – for sure. That is part of my life now, but I’mnot going to stress over not eating this or not drinking that.

If I think back to a time in the distant past when I was a normal weight, I never thought about “oh, if I eat this I’m doomed!” I would maybe indulge a bit and then when I got back home just go back to normal and whatever damage was done would naturally fall off.

I didn’t starve to lose the couple of pounds, hell sometimes I didn’t even gain any weight. It’s when you start playing those games in your head that you sabotage that.

Will I just go hog wild? No. Will I drink a margarita the size of my head? Probably.

Will I track it all? You betcha!

That brings me to something else I wanted to ask you all.

And by you all I mean:

Yeah, those are some of the stats for my blog. I blows me away at how many people actually read what I write, and from all over the world!

Anyway, all 138,000 and some change of you – I want to do a Q&A post when I get back next week. If you have a question you’d like covered please include it in the comments. I get tons of questions.

Some people message my Facebook Page or my personal one which is worse because it goes into some other folder that I forget to check all the time. Some people ask in my Weight Watchers Tough Love group, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest.

It’s hard to keep track of it all, so if you want a question answered about my weight loss thus far please comment! Hey, just comment and say I read your blog. It’d make my day 🙂

So I had my first weekend out of town since getting serious about my health last February. I was gone Friday and most of Saturday, so I weighed myself Saturday night.

Stayed the same. Yes!

I’ll admit I was nervous about eating everything out for a couple of days. It’s so easy to let old habits just slip right back in. I go to the Louisville KY Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular every year, and I wasn’t going to miss it this year due to Smartpoints.

It brought a question that I am asked over and over again to the forefront of my mind.

Do you really want to have to count points the rest of your life?

I mean do I seriously want to have to do this forever? This weekend was just a warm up for my big vacation to Vegas in a couple of weeks.

Yeah, Vegas. Land where the drinks flow and the food is plentiful and delicious. Land where you revert to a 22 year old as soon as your plane lands.

So as I was faced with a buffet Friday night and wanted to have some adult beverages I found myself feeling a little weary about the whole deal.

Why should I have to always worry about this?

Then I snapped the hell out of feeling sorry for myself when I remembered going to this same deal last year.

I mean I didn’t have to pack a bunch of meds because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to sleep without major acid reflux. I mean it doesn’t even cross my mind anymore because it has completely went away. This is amazing since all the health care professionals wanted to just throw me on medicine and my dietary changes fixed it without giving more money to the evil bastards in the pharmaceutical business.

This particular event also has long lines and you have to stand forever and a day. Long walk from wherever you finally got to park – I mean it is really physical. Last year my legs were killing me before we even got to the Pumpkin part and I couldn’t wait to get it over with so that I could freakin’ sit down.

I could have spent hours looking at the pumpkins this year, and I did. Sitting down because my legs and knee were screaming at me didn’t even cross my mind. I slept like a rock and didn’t have a jacked up knee for days after like last year.

So do I want to count Smartpoints the rest of my life? Not really, but I’d much rather do that then miss out on experiences. When you factor in the trade off there really is no other option.

Now before you bring the pitchforks out know that I know some people really do have issues with these things. I know I myself have used several of these excuses over the year. I wasn’t successful until I came to one solid conclusion:

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